2010 Data Breach Investigations Report Released by Verizon

I am very happy that we choose to use Verizon / CyberTrust this year for my company Third party VTA.

interesting stats:


48% involved privilege misuse (+26%)
40% resulted from hacking (-24%)
38% utilized malware (<>)
28% employed social tactics (+16%)
15% comprised physical attacks (+6%)


blog post here: http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2010/07/28/2010-dbir-released/

report here:  http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/reports/rp_2010-data-breach-report_en_xg.pdf